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| [REVIEW] Men & Women by Hamza Yusuf |
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| jannah |
| 09/19/04 at 13:04:22 |
| [slm] This will begin a series of reviews of stuff I bought at ISNA and since I went broke.. (literally 83 cents left when I got back!!) it should be a few months till I'm done ;) [img]http://store1.yimg.com/I/islamicbookstore-com_1808_159603033[/img] So Men & Women is one CD by Hamza Yusuf (herein known as HY). At first I wondered why it was all packaged differently from their other cd's and tapes.. thinking maybe it's a class or a series. But it's actually just one CD, a speech he gave somewhere once. It's the subject he's talking about tho that's so important and probably what made them sell this CD differently. HY talks about how men and women are spiritualy equal but have different natural makeups. He also focused on the relationship men and women should have in marriage. How men should support their wives, take care of them and protect them. And he went into the verse of Nushooz and explained how domestic violence against women is HARAM. And also how there are so many things in shariah from centuries and centuries ago that ulema talked about like how the wife should be provided domestic help, how she should be supported at the level she is used to, and how she is not required to cook in certain school's of thought! No doubt this is why many hardcore traditional cultural ppl dislike HY. But he says nothing out his own opinion. These were opinions of ulema long ago, but the way we live now along with the pressure of centuries of culture and tradition has distorted how we see the marriage relationship. Anyway a big thumb up from me! I give it :-X :-X :-X :-X stars out of 5 b/c it is just a speech and not a class/longer tape set but for what it is, it's very nice |
| 09/19/04 at 13:08:31 |
| jannah |
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